Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa hired the mysterious Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant by paying him Star River Essence Dew and Premium Water Attribute Spirit Stones, gaining a powerful ally against his pursuers. After the agreement was signed, the merchant sensed two powerful cultivators approaching, one of them a Spirit Transformation Cultivator.

• Yan Jingchen learned that the Yuanshou Ancestral Court sought to summon the Ancestral Beast Avatar and received a message that led him and the black-robed young man toward the Emerald Isles.
• Ning Fa and Luo Feixuan searched Luoxing Island and found the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant, who recognized Luo Feixuan’s unusual nature and shielded their conversation.
• The Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant asked Ning Fa for Premium Water Attribute Spirit Stones and Star River Essence Dew, and Ning Fa offered those treasures in exchange for his protection.
• Ning Fa and the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant signed a confidential employment agreement, hiring him for at least ten years under specified payment and danger conditions.
• Luo Feixuan was astonished that Ning Fa had hired the merchant, who then sensed two powerful cultivators approaching, including a Spirit Transformation Cultivator.

Ning Fa realized Qinghong may have helped Yan Jingchen track him, then faced Yan Jingchen with the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant as his ally. Tianbao defeated Tu Li and pursued both attackers after Ning Fa and Yan Jingchen fought to a standstill, leaving their escape uncertain.

• Ning Fa suspected Qinghong's Elder token had exposed his location and, after Luo Feixuan explained Qinghong might have allied with Yan Jingchen, asked Tianbao to handle the Spirit Transformation Cultivator.
• Yan Jingchen and Tu Li arrived, but Tianbao refused Yan Jingchen's offer and declared that he would defend Ning Fa as his employer.
• Tu Li used a white dharma wheel to draw Tianbao away while Yan Jingchen attacked Ning Fa with two thunder spears.
• Ning Fa activated the First Transformation of his Divine Firmament Manifestation and clashed with Yan Jingchen in a battle that devastated Luoxing Island.
• Tianbao reappeared after defeating Tu Li with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, and Yan Jingchen fled as Ning Fa emerged from his battle.
• Tianbao pursued Yan Jingchen and Tu Li with ruler phantoms; Yan Jingchen escaped as lightning threads, while Tu Li fled in serpent form.

Ning Fa and his companions traveled through the Qianmo Sea and reached a hidden spirit island, where he reunited with his daughter Le'er. He embraced her and asked where her mother was as a graceful figure approached.

• Ning Fa declined to pay Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant extra to pursue Yan Jingchen and the Spirit Transformation Cultivator, then arranged to exchange for spiritual items.
• Ning Fa summoned Little Ice and set off with Luo Feixuan and Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant, traveling northwest into the Desolate Sea.
• Ning Fa followed his Mental Connection with Hei Yu into the Qianmo Sea, where Luo Feixuan broke the powerful illusion restrictions guarding a hidden spirit island.
• Ning Fa sensed Hei Yu on the island and hurried ahead, where he found his young daughter Le'er riding a blue flood dragon.
• Le'er recognized Ning Fa as her father and threw herself into his arms, and he embraced her before asking where her mother was.
• A graceful woman drifted toward Ning Fa and Le'er from the distance.

Zhu Lingyun awakened and reunited with Ning Fa and Le'er, while revealing how Le'er helped her defeat the evil power inside her soul. The Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant identified Le'er as an Immortal Descendant and proposed a contract for her future help repairing his treasure, leaving Ning Fa to weigh the offer and its risks.

• Zhu Lingyun reunited with Ning Fa and Le'er, but said she still did not intend to become his Dao Companion.
• Zhu Lingyun explained that Le'er and a mysterious surge of Moon Essence Power helped her defeat the evil power that had invaded her soul.
• Ning Fa gave Zhu Lingyun the Soul Nurturing Divine Spring and a Jade Slip containing the Primordial Soul Dharma Soul technique.
• The Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant identified Le'er as an Immortal Descendant whose clan might seek to take her away, though the sealed Human Realm could prevent them from reaching her.
• The Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant offered to extend Ning Fa's hiring term in exchange for Le'er helping repair his treasure after she reached the Shapeshifting Realm, and offered a fifth-rank Taiyi Divine Contract to guarantee her safety.

Ning Fa reunited with his family and companions at the hidden spirit mountain, then used the Five Flames Lamp to enter and take control of the Profound Fire Sect’s stronghold. He left Zhu Lingyun in charge while preparing to seek materials and face the Spirit Transformation Cultivators pursuing him.

• Ning Fa learned that Zhu Lingyun had killed Wen Xiuxin after she trapped the group, and that the formation disk had led them to the hidden spirit island.
• Ning Fa reunited with Cheng Susu, Ning An, Ning Shaohong, Wei Shiqin, Meng Ruoqi, Yun Ying, and Ning Huarong at the mountain’s foot.
• Liuying used the Five Flames Lamp to open the mountain’s restriction, and Ning Fa found and took the central control formation disk.
• Ning Fa and Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant discovered spiritual materials in the Spirit-Forging Hall that could help improve the Five Flames Lamp.
• Ning Fa told Zhu Lingyun that Spirit Transformation Cultivators were targeting him, gave her the formation disk, and instructed the group to remain hidden and not activate the Teleportation Array.
• Le'er led Ning Fa away to show him a place she had found.

Ning Fa and Luo Feixuan were pursued by Old Monster Tiansheng, who fought Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant over the Abyssal Heavenly Pool. The battle paused when more Spirit Transformation Cultivators arrived, and Luo Feixuan identified them as Wen Yuchen and Fairy Linghua.

• Ning Fa and Luo Feixuan left the Qianmo Sea after Luo Feixuan signed a spirit contract promising not to reveal the spirit island’s location.
• Old Monster Tiansheng and his quasi-Spirit Transformation demon beast attacked Tianbao, but Tianbao killed the beast and badly wounded Tiansheng.
• Baili Ming identified the attacker as Old Monster Tiansheng of the Nine Immortals Association and told Ning Fa that Tianbao had once slain a Mid Spirit Transformation Cultivator.
• Luo Feixuan sensed Shen Cizhou nearby as Tianbao continued fighting Tiansheng.
• Tiansheng prepared to use a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, but he and Tianbao stopped fighting after sensing other Spirit Transformation Cultivators approaching.
• Wen Yuchen and Fairy Linghua arrived, and Luo Feixuan identified them to Ning Fa.

Ning Fa faced four Spirit Transformation Cultivators seeking the secret of the Abyssal Heavenly Pool, while Hermit Tianyi proposed sharing the treasure to avoid a conflict. Ning Fa revealed the dark-blue stone stele and explained a carefully tailored account of the Abyssal Heavenly Pool, leaving the cultivators astonished and eager to learn more.

• Wen Yuchen, Fairy Linghua, and Old Monster Tiansheng confronted Ning Fa about the Abyssal Heavenly Pool and considered joining forces to seize its secret.
• Tianbao told Ning Fa he could barely fight the three cultivators or help him flee, but Ning Fa chose to seek a peaceful solution.
• Hermit Tianyi arrived, warned that force would be unwise, and proposed that Ning Fa share his treasure in exchange for payment.
• Ning Fa asked about his clansmen, and Hermit Tianyi assured him that he had protected them from the other cultivators.
• Ning Fa revealed a dark-blue stone stele whose starry vision overwhelmed the Spirit Transformation Cultivators, then described it as a treasure from the Abyssal Heavenly Pool.
• Ning Fa recounted how Si Chenxing had chosen him to kill Xuan Ling, presenting a mostly true account that concealed his own Source-Crossing Heavenly Book.

Ning Fa convinced the Spirit Transformation Cultivators that the Ancient Star Stone Tablet could lead to ascension, then negotiated compensation for sharing it. The chapter left Fu Ling Hall with the Tianshu Alliance’s conditional recognition and permission to occupy the Black Star Archipelago.

• Ning Fa claimed the Ancient Star Stone Tablet came from Abyss Ancestor and could reveal a way to ascend to the upper realm, persuading the Spirit Transformation Cultivators of its value.
• Old Monster Tiansheng demanded to inspect Ning Fa’s Storage Ring, but Ning Fa threatened to destroy the tablet, and Hermit Tianyi intervened against Tiansheng.
• Ning Fa swore that the tablet was his most precious find, while a Substitute Nightmare Stone Puppet secretly absorbed the oath’s backlash.
• Ning Fa demanded that the cultivators share any ascension method they discovered, seek Abyss Ancestor after ascending, and provide him with a large quantity of cultivation resources; they accepted the terms after negotiating substitutions with High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Ning Fa asked Wen Yuchen to stop Yan Jingchen’s siege of Fu Ling Hall, recognize the hall, and grant it the Black Star Archipelago; Wen Yuchen agreed while Ning Fa remained its Hall Master.

Ning Fa exchanged the Ancient Star Stone Tablet for vast resources and permission for Fu Ling Hall to operate, then met his surviving allies and planned to rebuild in the Black Star Archipelago. He also accused Qinghong of betraying him and prepared to relocate the Moon Gazing Sect before leaving Skyvault City.

• Ning Fa handed the Ancient Star Stone Tablet to the Spirit Transformation Cultivators after receiving the agreed resources, and the Tianshu Alliance kept the tablet for the first ten years.
• Ning Fa met Murong Zhaoxue, Liang Jun, and Tie Hengye on Ming'an Island, learned Fu Ling Hall had suffered heavy losses, and directed them to rebuild in the Black Star Archipelago with resources he provided.
• Murong Zhaoxue gave Ning Fa the materials she had collected, and Ning Fa agreed to Luo Feixuan's request to relocate the Moon Gazing Sect to the Black Star Archipelago.
• Ning Fa confronted Hermit Wuxin in Skyvault City, accused Qinghong of helping Yan Jingchen ambush him, and announced that Fu Ling Hall would relocate.
• Hermit Wuxin agreed to the Moon Gazing Sect's relocation but asked Ning Fa to leave the other Golden Water Marsh sects in place, then lamented that Qinghong's actions could destroy the Heavenly Evolution Sect's foundation.

Ning Fa spent ten years in seclusion and advanced his Moon God Heart to the Moon Soul Crystal Core stage, greatly strengthening his divine sense, defense, and attacks. After checking on his family and learning that Fu Ling Hall had secured the Black Star Archipelago, he began preparing for another seclusion, with seven years to assist Huangfu Ziyue.

• Ning Fa entered seclusion on Xuan Ning Island to cultivate his Moon God Heart and Divine Firmament Manifestation, using Soul Nurturing Divine Spring and other divine soul treasures.
• Ten years later, Ning Fa completed the Moon Soul Crystal Core stage, and his divine sense expanded to one thousand li as he gained powerful defenses and the Moon-Slaying Divine Light technique.
• The Moon God Heart’s breakthrough stirred Zhu Lingyun’s Primordial Soul Splitting Art, while Luo Feixuan recognized the quality of Ning Fa’s advancement.
• Ning Fa emerged briefly, spent time with his family, and heard from Baili Ming that Fu Ling Hall had taken control of the Black Star Archipelago after Yang Aochuan’s death and the Devil Master’s intervention.
• Ning Fa checked on Blue Lightning, which was still refining qilin true blood, then received Huangfu Ziyue’s message requesting his help seven years later.
• Ning Fa began another seclusion to cultivate the Divine Firmament Manifestation to the First Transformation realm.

After six years in seclusion, Ning Fa emerged with greatly enhanced strength and joined Huangfu Ziyue’s Zi Yin clan expedition. The clan revealed that they needed him to help Huangfu Jin regain Spirit Transformation, then led him to the Zi Yin clan’s hidden birthplace through a moonlit lake.

• Ning Fa completed the second stage of his Divine Firmament Manifestation and traveled with Luo Feixuan and the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant toward Chiyang Sea.
• Luo Feixuan gave Ning Fa her cultivation insights on the Lunar Yin Embryo Nurturing stage, and the three met Huangfu Jin, Huangfu Ziyue, and Zhuo Qing on a spatial spirit boat.
• Ning Fa discovered that Huangfu Jin’s injuries had healed, and Huangfu Ziyue explained that the clan needed Ning Fa and the Zi Xiao Sword to help Huangfu Jin challenge the Spirit Transformation bottleneck.
• Huangfu Ziyue promised Ning Fa the Innate Thunder Seed and brought the group by spatial traversal to an island with an ordinary-looking lake.
• At night, the Zi Yin clan members used blood and a scroll to reveal palace phantoms in the lake, and Huangfu Jin led them into the hidden realm identified as the clan’s birthplace.

Ning Fa refined the Innate Thunder Seed in Zi Xiao Hall, gaining Supreme Wood Divine Thunder and greatly increasing his strength. He then joined the Zi Yin Clan’s ritual, which summoned the mysterious Lord Divine Wood to help Huangfu Jin attempt a dangerous breakthrough.

• Huangfu Jin used a purple great seal to dismiss the Purple Origin Star Dragon and open the ancestral palace, where Huangfu Ziyue led Ning Fa to Zi Xiao Hall.
• Ning Fa absorbed the liquid Thunder Power and refined the Innate Thunder Seed over a year, opening his third Innate Thunder Sea Divine Treasury and gaining Supreme Wood Divine Thunder.
• Ning Fa destroyed the pale-purple essence blood left in his body, then joined Huangfu Ziyue and the others at the Hexagonal Altar for the clan’s ritual.
• Huangfu Ziyue and the other Zi Yin Clan Members activated the six sacred artifacts and offered precious treasures, opening a rift that brought down the Purple Ancient Wood they called Lord Divine Wood.
• Huangfu Ziyue told Ning Fa that Lord Divine Wood had granted the Zi Yin Clan its bloodline and that they needed its help for Huangfu Jin’s dangerous Body Shattering Spirit Sculpting Method.

The Zi Yin Divine Wood’s fruits dramatically strengthened Ning Fa’s Supreme Wood Divine Thunder and manifested a powerful purple-gold-green Divine Wood Totem, while Huangfu Jin advanced to Spirit Transformation. Huangfu Ziyue admitted the clan had used the ritual to bind Ning Fa to them, but he rejected their claim that he was now Zi Yin and challenged their motives.

• The Zi Yin Divine Wood enveloped Huangfu Jin and Ning Fa in purple light, and its rare Purple-Gold Fruit entered Ning Fa’s Sea of Lightning Divine Treasury and transformed his Supreme Wood Divine Thunder.
• After half a year, Huangfu Jin emerged and successfully passed the Spirit Transformation Tribulation, while Ning Fa remained within the purple light for another year.
• Ning Fa’s Supreme Wood Divine Thunder reached the peak of the fourth grade, and a purple-gold-green Divine Wood Totem appeared behind him.
• Huangfu Jin and the Zi Yin Clan Members returned and were shocked by Ning Fa’s Totem, which dwarfed Huangfu Jin’s own purple-black totem.
• Ning Fa demanded an explanation, and Huangfu Ziyue admitted that the clan had intended to make him a Zi Yin clansman; Huangfu Jin declared him the progenitor of the Zi Xiao Lineage and urged him to help rebuild the Immortal Dynasty.

Ning Fa left the Zi Yin Clan after rejecting its efforts to recruit him, then returned to Fu Ling Hall and discovered an infiltrator who led him to Bing Ning. After demonstrating his strength, he learned that she had come to discuss his spirit pet.

• Ning Fa refused Huangfu Ziyue and Huangfu Jin's offer to join the Zi Yin Clan, and Huangfu Ziyue let him leave while insisting he would return someday.
• Ning Fa heard reports of Fu Ling Hall's growth and the Sea Race and Demon Race's recent retreat into defensive positions.
• Ning Fa exposed Xia Fenlan as a disguised Nascent Soul Cultivator and captured her when she tried to flee.
• A message from Bing Ning summoned Ning Fa to Dark Star Island's northwestern coast, where he confronted her about infiltrating Fu Ling Hall.
• Ning Fa overpowered Bing Ning in a brief clash, and she revealed that she wanted to discuss his spirit pet.

Bing Ning failed to persuade Ning Fa to surrender Little Ice, despite offering rare treasures, powerful demon cultivators, and a pure-blooded Ice Phoenix, and warned him of an approaching calamity. Fifteen years later, the Sea Race opened a vast spatial passage at the Gelan Archipelago, and powerful Sea Race reinforcements began pouring through.

• Bing Ning offered Ning Fa increasingly valuable compensation for Little Ice, but he refused to part with his longtime spirit pet.
• Bing Ning warned that a calamity would soon threaten the Human Realm and gave Ning Fa twenty years to reconsider before she departed.
• Ning Fa returned to Xuan Ning Island, urged his allies to cultivate, and learned that Zhu Lingyun had nearly finished comprehending the Ancient Teleportation Array.
• Fifteen years later, the Sea Race activated a massive array across the Gelan Archipelago and opened a spatial passage.
• Dario Thorne and the Sea Race leaders watched as Spirit Transformation cultivators and other Sea Race forces emerged from the passage.

The Sea Race opened a spatial passage from the Sea Origin Realm and welcomed its advance force, including the Ancestral Sea Devotee Elena, who promised more reinforcements. Dario then negotiated with the Demon Court, whose leaders weighed joining the Sea Race against seeking another path to ascend before the Demon tribes began mobilizing.

• The Sea Race's spatial passage to the Sea Origin Realm opened, and Dario welcomed the arriving troops.
• Mattis disparaged the Human Realm Sea Race, but Elena rebuked him and introduced herself as a Vice Speaker and Ancestral Sea Devotee.
• Elena explained that the arriving cultivators were an advance force and promised further support, while Dario said the Sea Race had powerful potential allies.
• Four Spirit Transformation Demon Cultivators debated joining the Sea Race, and the black-clothed elder said Dario would seek the Ancestral Sea's help with their ascension.
• Dario met with the black-clothed elder for several hours, and one month later orders spread through the Demon Court as Demon tribes mobilized.

Venerable Jizhao gathered Nine Dragons Sea’s leading cultivators at Taichu Gate to confront a massive Sea Race invasion through a passage to another realm. The leaders agreed to unite under Jizhao’s command and began arranging defenses, reinforcements, and ways to strengthen their ranks.

• Venerable Jizhao arrived at the meeting, gave Tu Li a Calamity-Averting Pill to help heal his injuries, and welcomed Lord Xuanyi of Pure Sword Studio.
• True Lord Xingxuan showed the assembled cultivators a vision of a vast Sea Race army crossing into their realm and explained that the passage could admit cultivators up to the Mid Spirit Transformation stage.
• Lord Xuanyi, Fairy Linghua, Tu Li, True Lord Xingxuan, Demon Lord Tunyan, and Xiao Lie agreed to let Venerable Jizhao command the defense.
• Wen Yuchen agreed to contact Great Qin and Tianwu, while Jizhao said the Ancient Star Stone Tablet would not justify making peace with the Sea Race.
• Venerable Jizhao ordered Star Luo Palace to establish the Nine Palaces Vast Star Array, pledged Taichu Gate’s Myriad Dragon Tree, and proposed opening the Spirit Taming Mirror Pool to potential Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Lord Xuanyi approved opening the jointly owned Spirit Taming Mirror Pool.

The Nine Dragons Sea’s leaders prepared for war by rallying allies and resources, while Ning Fa emerged from nearly two centuries of seclusion after advancing to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. The allied forces faced an invasion by the Sea Race and Demon Race, and Ning Fa began assessing his greatly increased strength.

• Venerable Jizhao and the other leaders chose candidates for the spirit pool, accelerated construction of the ancestral hall, and arranged efforts to recruit the Zi Yin Descendants and the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant.
• Venerable Jizhao gave Fairy Linghua and Tu Li Divine Dew, then agreed to Tu Li’s proposal to recruit another powerful ally.
• The Tianshu Alliance, Demon Sea Alliance, and Yuanshou Ancestral Court began preparing for war as the Sea Race and Demon Race invaded the Five Spirits Sea, Leiming Sea, and Xuetting Sea along three routes.
• A mysterious visitor briefly came to Dark Star Island, while human forces suffered heavy casualties and fought bitterly against the invaders.
• Ning Fa broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage on Xuan Ning Island after nearly two hundred years of cultivation.
• Ning Fa discovered that his Mana, divine sense, physical strength, and divine thunders had improved dramatically, and wondered whether he was the strongest Nascent Soul Cultivator in Human Realm history.

After leaving seclusion at Nascent Soul Late Stage, Ning Fa learned that Zhu Lingyun had fallen into a mysterious condition linked to the Primordial Soul Splitting Art and that the Sea Race and Demon Race had launched a massive invasion. He went to Dark Star Island and agreed to aid the human alliance, while Luo Feixuan stayed behind to seek a way to save Zhu Lingyun.

• Ning Fa reunited with his family, learned that Zhu Lingyun was ill, and heard that Meng Ruoqi had completed the Ancient Teleportation Array.
• Baili Ming told Ning Fa that the Sea Race had allied with the Demon Race and that a Spirit Transformation Cultivator from Taichu Gate was seeking him.
• Ning Fa discovered a golden Full Moon in Zhu Lingyun's Sea of Consciousness, and Luo Feixuan connected it to the Primordial Soul Splitting Art and the Heavenly Moon Void God Diagram.
• Luo Feixuan agreed to remain with Zhu Lingyun and investigate a cure after learning that Shen Cizhou would be secluded for at least fifty years.
• Ning Fa traveled to Dark Star Island, learned that the invasion had devastated the human forces, and met Wen Yuchen's incarnation.
• Ning Fa promised Wen Yuchen that he and the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant would help resist the invading Sea Race and Demon Race.

Ning Fa obtained pill formulas and a reward from Wen Yuchen, then led Fu Ling Hall toward the war against the Sea Race and Demon Race. At Spirit Void Island, Ancestor Nihuo arrived seeking to reach besieged Skyque City, but its Teleportation Array was unusable until Ning Fa appeared and asked why.

• Ning Fa requested high-level pill formulas and fire-attributed materials from Wen Yuchen, who provided two pill formulas, accepted Ning Fa’s offerings, and promised to gather the materials.
• Wen Yuchen gave Ning Fa a Star-Link Disk and a Grand Spirit Pearl that granted entry to the Spirit Taming Mirror Pool, then asked him and Tianbao to reinforce Skyque City.
• Ning Fa gathered more than a thousand Fu Ling Hall cultivators, including Ning Huarong and Ning An, and rallied them to fight the Sea Race.
• Ning Fa and the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant traveled toward the Five Spirits Sea while Fu Ling Hall’s forces set out for the front.
• At Spirit Void Island, Ancestor Nihuo arrived with nine disciples and requested teleportation to Skyque City, but Xie told him the array had stopped working.
• Ning Fa and another figure emerged from a larger Teleportation Array, and Ning Fa asked why the Skyque City array could not be used.